West Virginia-1938: Tree With Flowers And Circle Lights Passing Through The

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationWest Virginia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 West Virginia

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Tree With Flowers And Circle Lights Passing Through The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a dark, atmospheric night scene in West Virginia. The camera focuses on a tree with dense foliage, its branches illuminated by scattered, glowing orbs that resemble fairy lights or reflections. These circular lights flicker and drift across the frame, creating a dreamy, nostalgic effect against the deep black background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and subtle camera movement, evoking a sense of quiet wonder and period charm. Ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or evocative visual storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127268290

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: West Virginia, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s West Virginia home-movie footage for productions needing an atmospheric night garden insert, memory transition, or abstract period cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show an outdoor tree or shrub with pale blossoms or round lamps, with few firm era clues beyond the 1938 8mm home-movie source metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like an unstaged home-movie observation of lights and foliage, held on a quiet nighttime detail rather than a planned public event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark foliage, pale flower-like circles, glowing round lights, a faint vertical structure behind the branches, heavy shadows, and soft exposure shifts.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, low-light exposure bloom, frame-edge darkness, and slight handheld drift that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a moody insert, transition, dreamlike memory beat, or visual bridge within a 1930s domestic or regional sequence.
Historical context: As a home-movie fragment, it suggests private attention to a nighttime garden or decorated outdoor scene without enough visual evidence to identify an occasion.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location identification should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 8mm West Virginia home movie, night foliage lights, vintage garden lights, abstract home-movie cutaway, and flowering tree at night.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1938 West Virginia home movies, then broader night garden, foliage, lights, or memory-themed 8mm material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 West Virginia 8mm frame showing dark foliage with scattered pale round forms, possibly blossoms or lights, in soft low-light focus. — Dark foliage fills the frame with small pale circular forms catching the light.

A soft 8mm view of leafy branches and pale circular highlights, with a faint vertical structure visible through the darkness. — Leafy branches and pale circular highlights appear against a dim background.

Low-light 8mm frame of dense foliage with scattered pale round highlights and a faint structure partly visible behind the branches. — Dense foliage and pale highlights are held in a soft nighttime composition.

Bright round lights bloom through dark foliage in this 1938 West Virginia 8mm frame, creating an abstract nighttime garden view. — Large glowing circles pass across the dark foliage and obscure part of the background.

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